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Inexpensive Electric Cars May Arrive Sooner Than You Think

Posted by timothy on from the I'll-take-it dept.

catchblue22 writes According to an article in MIT Technology Review, a new peer reviewed study suggests that battery-powered vehicles are close to being cost-effective for most people: "Electric cars may seem like a niche product that only wealthy people can afford, but a new analysis suggests that they may be close to competing with or even beating gas cars on cost. ... The authors of the new study concluded that the battery packs used by market-leading EV manufacturers like Tesla and Nissan cost as little as $300 per kilowatt-hour of energy in 2014. That's lower than the most optimistic published projections for 2015, and even below the average published projection for 2020. The authors found that batteries appear on track to reach $230 per kilowatt-hour by 2018. The authors found that batteries appear on track to reach $230 per kilowatt-hour by 2018. If that's true, it would push EVs across a meaningful threshold."

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  1. And redundancies come through faster as well! by damn_registrars · · Score: 5, Funny

    The authors found that batteries appear on track to reach $230 per kilowatt-hour by 2018. The authors found that batteries appear on track to reach $230 per kilowatt-hour by 2018.

    Perhaps some time after 2018 we will see editing of article summaries before they go to the front page as well? Nah, probably not.

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    1. Re:And redundancies come through faster as well! by OzPeter · · Score: 4, Funny

      The authors found that batteries appear on track to reach $230 per kilowatt-hour by 2018. The authors found that batteries appear on track to reach $230 per kilowatt-hour by 2018.

      Perhaps some time after 2018 we will see editing of article summaries before they go to the front page as well? Nah, probably not.

      Oh come on .. you are such a debbie downer. Don't you see the fantastic new technology that Dice is deploying to /.??? Duping the story used to take days, if not weeks. Now with the latest auto-dupe code they are pushing the limits and attempting to dupe the story within itself!

      Mind blown!!!!!

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    2. Re:And redundancies come through faster as well! by berchca · · Score: 3, Funny

      Oh, and the authors found that batteries appear on track to reach $230 per kilowatt-hour by 2018.